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The word “legend” is vastly overused, but Dolly was an absolute legend.
My most sincere condolences to her family and friends.
One of my favourite Dolly performances (bear in mind that my favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, Sisters Of Mercy, Heilung and Otyken):
That is very sad news. Regardless of whether you are a fan of her music or not she was a pretty incredible lady and her charitable works are substantial.
RIP Dolly
Agree, Gladders. She was an outstanding personality and had a long lasting career. I didn’t follow her that much in the last one or two decades, though she was already in her prime when I started paying more attention to quality music.
May she rest in peace
Sad news. Never my sort of music but you have to appreciate talent when you see it.
I didn’t know until I just read it that she wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day which is quite remarkable.
The Sisters of Mercy (one of my favourite bands) did a wonderful cover of Jolene.
I’m sure they’ll include it on their next tour.
So many children receive books from her book giving scheme. It’s been a terrible year for losing wonderful people ( I’m still reeling from the loss of Sam Neill).She was supremely talented and unique. There’ll never be another Dolly Parton. It’s almost as if she died young because the older she got the younger she looked.
Couldn’t agree more legend is banded about too much but Dolly most definitely was, a fantastic singer, phenomenal song writer and a lovely person.
The more I know the less I understand.
That’d be the Imagination Library initiative, Moe, which at last count had gifted ~330,000,000 books to educate and inspire children.
Quite the contrast, as has been mentioned on social media, with certain other people who use the proceeds from children’s books to fund lawfare and bigotry against marginalised and oppressed minority groups.
Dolly was too good for this world. May she rest in power.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Dolly Parton was a living embodiment of American exceptionalism. Everything about her was exceptional: her songwriting, her voice, her appearance and her sense of self. The response to her passing has only served to underline just how exceptional she was. And in the past 24 hours, as people have reflected on her life and career, her exceptional compassion has shone through too.
If you knew nothing about Dolly, other than she was an 80 year old woman from rural Appalachia who dressed in rhinestone studded costumes, sang country music and was a person of strong faith, you might assume she would be part of the MAGA movement.
Yet at a time when followers of Jesus Christ are talking about “the sin of empathy” and claiming that loving thy neighbour as thyself will lead to the end of western civilisation, Dolly’s faith led her to embrace everyone. When asked to comment on the introduction of anti-trans legislation in Tennessee where she lives, she spoke in support of the transgender community.
“I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them” she told the Hollywood Reporter in 2023 “That’s who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business. But we are all God’s children and how we are is who we are.”
The fact that Dolly Parton was beloved by Republicans and Democrats alike is a reminder that the compassionate America has not gone away, that it still endures and inspires despite being eclipsed by Trumpism for the past decade. And in many ways, Dolly was the Anti-Trump, self effacing where he is self aggrandising, benevolent where he is transactional, sincere where he is cynical and unifying where his is divisive.
There was no Us and Them with Dolly. Her stock response to questions of politics was to state that she “just wanted everyone to be treated good”.
Her passing is a great loss, but she remains an example to all of us who base our politics on that principle.
– Billy Bragg, on Facebook this evening.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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